The term yeast generally names different microscopic and unicellular fungi, which reproduce thanks to division or budding, and which produce certain enzymes that generate the fermentation of carbohydrates and, for example, produce different substances.
It should be noted that fermentation It is a process that was discovered at the time by the French chemist Louis Pasteur. The most typical fermentation is carried out precisely by yeasts.
Fermentation is a process widely used in the industry as it allows the transformation of grape juice into wine, barley into beer and carbohydrates into carbon dioxide in order to manufacture one of the most consumed products in the world as is the case of bread.
As indicated above, yeasts reproduce asexually by budding or budding and in some cases sexually through spores such as ascospores. In asexual reproduction and when the conditions are correct, a new bud results from the mother yeast, while when it has an adult size it will separate from the mother.
On the other hand, the term is also used to designate any dough that is made up of the aforementioned fungi and that is able to rise and make the body with which it is mixed ferment, such is the case of beer yeast.
Among the best known and most widespread yeasts, the Saccharomyces cerevisiae, better known as brewer's yeast. It is also a unicellular fungus and it is the most recognized because it is used to produce widely consumed products such as bread, wine and beer.
It is worth mentioning that the use of this type to produce the aforementioned products is due to the ability to produce ethanol and carbon dioxide in the fermentation process.
Pizza, without going any further, is a food widely consumed in the world and one of its ingredients along with water, wheat flour and salt is yeast. This mixture is baked and once cooked to taste, tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese are added.
